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Category: Culture

Source Trump Social. Chipalypse now with True dressed as air cav leader from the movie Apocalypse Now.
8 September 202526 September 2025Culture, Fascism, Featured, History, News, Politics

Trump’s dangerous plan to illegally deploy Texas troops in Illinois

Trump’s plan could tear apart the Union if it goes forward. Either way, it will plunge the country into an unprecedented constitutional crisis.

Citizenship stamp from Kieran Healy.
15 August 202515 August 2025Featured, History

Kieran Healy’s reflection on becoming a US citizen

Kieran Healy’s reflection on becoming a US citizen.

Student protest at Washington and Lee demanding to change the university's name.
21 June 202521 June 2025Anti-Racism, Culture, Featured, News, Politics

Not Unmindful has returned

After six months of silence Not Unmindful has returned to address the current moment.

Horse ebooks (@Horse_ebooks) tweet: Everything happens so much, dated, June 28, 2012 at 4:23 PM, from Earth.
31 January 202531 January 2025Culture, Featured, Internet, News, Politics

Horse ebooks was right

Horse eBooks was right. mean, how else can we begin to begin to make sense of the last ten or eleven. Blow after blow. Outrage after outrage.

SNL Music at 50 trailer image.
27 January 202527 January 2025Featured, Film, Live, Music

50 years of music on SNL

This is all kinds of amazing. A Questlove DJ supercut for the trailer for the SNL music documentary. It’s kind of perfect (though seeing The Clash included would have been a nice to have).

Picture of an upside down America flag painted on the side of a barn or other structure.
21 January 202521 January 2025Culture, Featured, News, Politics

Thoughts on today, 20 January 2025

So, today was Inauguration Day. Donald Trump took the reins as president of the United States on again. I’m am full of emotions: disbelief that we came to this points, disgust at our perceptions throughout the world, disdain for the current office holders (in every brand of the government, and fear for those who don’t look like me).

Graphic from the Atlantic story
29 December 202317 January 2025Culture, Featured, Science

81 things that blew our minds

The Atlantic provides a great list of thing they learned in 2023 that were just mind boggling.

My Favorite Books of 2022
11 December 20226 February 2025Books and Reading, Culture, Featured

The best books I read in 2022

Since I’m in a mood for year end lists, I thought I would share my favorite books for 2022. This list is necessarily shorter than the music one: five plus an honorable mention.

14 September 2008Language, Literature

David Foster Wallace

Rest in peace. Why is it that the brilliant ones are taken so soon. Damnit. I will be reading Infinite Jest again. […]

13 March 2008Comics, Music

Common People Comic

This is so right on so many differently levels. Pulp’s “Common People” as a Archie comic. Archie in a different class… Indeed. […]

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